Sustainable Procurement

Audience and background

The courses under this heading are aimed at those officers and managers with specific responsibility for sustainable procurement or those service and policy areas that impact upon it for example economic development and environmental services.

The general format of the course is designed to increase the officers knowledge of what is possible when incorporating sustainability issues into procurement and to look at ways of achieving value through the application of outcomes specifications and whole life costing. It is however important to ensure that the introduction of sustainability criteria is carried out within the regulatory requirements.